I have been blogging for quite a long time. While it hasn’t been as long as some, seven years and 800+ posts later I have seen several waves of bloggers cycle in and out and watched the landscape change a bit. I took a break for a couple of years and when I returned I found a drastic change had occurred.

Pre-break, the term FLR was not part of the standard kink vernacular. It was a movement created by those who wished to use an initialism to easily provide a handful of details about their Femdom relationship without having to explain it all. Mostly, it was a way to separate themselves from casual BDSM-oriented play relationships that were the visible majority at the time.

By stating you were an FLR, it implied a couple of things:

This is a loving relationship. While the dynamics may be strict, it is not…